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Oct. 20th, 2004 at 3:52 PM

anarch_kitty, I think 'tis the Season of fire drills. Today, at Curtin, I got caught in three fire drills. In different areas. Once in the library (it took about 15 minutes, I was on the fifth floor), once in a lecture theatre in the middle of the lecture, and the last time in the lab.

Hmm. I wonder if all the Unis coordinate their fire drills, it won't surprise me.

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-leareth.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 12:58 am (UTC)

Naa, to me sounds like all the unis forgot about firedrills for the whole year or semester then suddenly realised "Oh SHIT we have only a week of classes left and we haven't done the requisite firedrill quick hit the red button!"

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 01:10 am (UTC)

No, no. Curtin is really good about it. Last semester I got caught in two different fire drills in the time span of a week (not on the same day, thank gods).

What worries me about UWA is that they tend to have their fire drills during the Easter Break when no one is around. That always seemed a bit strange to me.

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i-smile.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 05:44 am (UTC)

(Oh, hey, dude. You're in Perth! Cool.)

They have them during Easter break? Er. So, the drills are just to make sure the alarms work, not to actually practise getting students out of classes before they burn? I wondered why I'd never heard one until this week.

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 06:19 am (UTC)

You in Perth too?

You kid?

*reads profile*

Ok, me dork.

This is bizarre. I don't meet people who live in Perth online, unless I already know them in RL. Perth is small. I feel very stupid -_-;

So, do you live South of the river, or North of the River. I live North, so, anything that's not a major land mark that is in the South I've no idea.

This is sort of cool.

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i-smile.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 06:28 am (UTC)

I've only come across one other fan from Perth through LJ so far, so it is really strange. (Although, I guess, not that strange, since I found you through friendsfriends and we're connected through

velithya.)

I live. Er. I'm not actually sure if it's north or south, :D. Right across from UWA, in the residential colleges.

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 06:35 am (UTC)

True. Cool, you know vel? (personally?) Know her as well ^_^

.... that's technically South of the river. I live up North, near Mirrabooka (that doesn't ring any bell, I live practically next to the ice-rink).

This is really strange. Perth isn't exactly known for a big online presence (or any other presence, except a mention in 'Kill Bill 2' and 'Sandman). Having said that, amei and leareth both live in Perth (and few other people on my f-list live in Perth). This is sort of nice ^_^

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i-smile.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 06:42 am (UTC)

I actually know her from online, too, but we met through the Perth forum for NaNoWriMo, so it wasn't really a shock to learn that she was from Perth. :D

Dude, an ice rink? :D That's brilliant! I didn't know there was one!

Yes, that's pretty much it--small online presence. My impression of Perth has always been that it's all about sports and outdoors stuff, not so much about fandom and computing. So it's weirder to find Perth fans than it is to find fans from where I live when not at uni.

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 06:50 am (UTC)

*laughs*

I don't know how you people torture youself so.

Yep. Perth actually have an ice rink. It is about 20/30 mins drive from UWA.

Really? I tend to hang around with anime fans *thinks* Actually, all my close firends watch anime, read manga, game, or due the above three in some weird combination, and they know their computers.

See, that's a bit different with me. Outside of Uni I'm involved with JAFWA, every Saturday, so, I'm always saturated in anime or manga in form or another. Curtin doesn't have much of a social life (not like UWA), so, no anime club. And I haven't made any friends either, but oh well, I have anime and manga ^_^

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i-smile.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 07:13 am (UTC)

Huh. Most of my friends type so painfully slowly that I can't bear to watch them do it. (I switched from QWERTY to another arrangement and still typed faster than they do--and I'm not even fast in the first place.) They don't know much about computers at all, and while some of them might like anime, they can't sit through an entire screening. :D I only very recently met someone who was actually into anime enough to even think about fandom.

The extent of my anime club involvement is pretty much going to the screenings (The clubroom intimidates me :D), so I don't really know any of the people there except in a "Oh hey I remember seeing you here last week!" sort of way. I'm surprised that Curtin has no anime club, really. What do you do to get anime? You're not forced to do the work of downloading on your own, are you? :D;;

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 07:26 am (UTC)

... that is so sad *huggles* I have been surrounded by anime/manga fans and computer geeks for over 7/8 years now. And it is good, though there are times I needed time away.

At least the new club rooms are bigger. Don't be frightened, most of the girls there are nice (no comment on the men), and it'd be a good place to meet people with similar interests. Curtin doesn't, but JAFWA is a Curtin affiliated club, and they screen every Saturday from 5 till 11pm. Lots of anime. That's where I watch my anime nowadays. I'm too bogged down with work to watch anything extra. But when I did have time I use to leech off others. Dial up is not friendly when it comes to dlding anime. And leeching works well ^_^V

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naanima.livejournal.com wrote:

Oct. 20th, 2004 06:41 am (UTC)

oops, forgot to comment on this.

Yep, they put the fire drills furing Easter. In the only building where there were pople. The building where the UWAnime Club had their marathon screening. It was rather inconvenient

(mind you this was about two years ago, or longer, I'm hoping they are getting better at coordinating these, 'cos you know, they -need- the people)

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